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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2005
Arshish C Kapadia, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jonah Burke, Seattle, WA (US);
R Daniel Parke, Jamacia Plain, MA (US);
Howard M Crow, Iii, Sammamish, WA (US);
Arshish C Kapadia, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jonah Burke, Seattle, WA (US);
R Daniel Parke, Jamacia Plain, MA (US);
Howard M Crow, III, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system facilitates the search engine to search for pieces of information in various databases and application documents without the need to know the specific protocols to communicate with the various databases and application documents, such as Microsoft Excel documents. Despite the multitude of possible protocols which a crawler would have to use to connect to the databases, the system includes a unifying application programming interface to unify the way to access pieces of information in the databases and application documents.